Roger Bowman
New York Giants 1949; New York Giants 1951–1952; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -58.9 | -58.0 | .106 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 30 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .286 | .661 | 79.1 | 73.4 | .317 | 0.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 178.2 | 167.6 | .454 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 6.3 | 4.26 | 2.053 | 5.68 | 6.64 | 165.0 | 94.3 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 2 | 26.3 | 6.15 | 2.165 | 8.20 | 4.17 | 105.8 | 64.0 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 12.00 | 3.000 | 9.00 | 4.42 | 118.3 | 31.1 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 35 | 29 | 36 | 9 | 65.3 | 4.82 | 1.439 | 4.96 | 4.68 | 106.7 | 91.0 | 0.4 |
| 1955 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 16.7 | 8.64 | 2.100 | 4.32 | 4.89 | 121.1 | 46.7 | -0.7 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-06-07 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-08-15 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1955-05-17 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1949-04-19 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-04-28 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 5.0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1951-06-03 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4.2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1953-06-14 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 6.1 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1951-05-05 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-06-17 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 3.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.